Nikki Haley Raises $24 Million—More Than Doubling Previous Haul (forbes.com)
Trump campaign targets Haley for first time on New Hampshire airwaves (nbcnews.com)

And this one will trigger racist camp follower
False claims question Nikki Haley’s eligibility to serve as president | AP News

Nikki Haley ratchets up her attacks on Donald Trump - POLITICO
Nikki Haley ratchets up her attacks on Donald Trump
Haley is swiping at Trump in a fight over her record on gas taxes.
01/03/2024 07:46 PM EST

LONDONDERRY, N.H. — Nikki Haley didn’t bat an eye when Donald Trump started calling her “birdbrain.” She brushed off his mocking of her surge in the polls by saying she was flattered by the attention. She’s even pledged to pardon him.

But when it comes to his allies’ latest line of attack, Haley will bring a town hall to a halt. Over her record on the gas tax, of all things.

With polls showing Haley gaining on Trump in New Hampshire, the former U.N. ambassador is ratcheting up her attacks on her one-time boss.

“I don’t talk about opponents. I never have. I don’t think you want to hear it,” Haley said to an overflowing crowd in a country western-themed bar near New Hampshire’s seacoast on Wednesday.

But “we are less than three weeks out” from the first-in-the-nation primary, Haley said. A pro-Trump super PAC is running an ad here accusing the former South Carolina governor of flip-flopping on her home state’s gas tax. And, as Haley put it, “none of it’s true.”

Haley has spent most of her campaign walking a fine line when it comes to Trump, alternating between opposing and praising him as she aims to appeal to both “Never Trump” Republicans and those who are open to the idea of voting for him again.

But with her latest broadsides against Trump, Haley is opening a new front in a primary long defined by lower-polling rivals’ reluctance to engage directly with the former president. And she’s doing so at a crucial moment in New Hampshire, where large numbers of more moderate Republicans and independents who can vote in the GOP primary are just starting to tune in.

“She wants to appeal to the people who haven’t made a decision yet … and so she’s showing strength,” said longtime New Hampshire GOP strategist Dave Carney, who is not affiliated with a candidate in the presidential race. “I don’t know if it’s too late.”

And Trump is testing her willingness to go on the attack. Late Wednesday, a source close to the Trump campaign and granted anonymity to speak freely confirmed a New York Times report that the Trump campaign is starting to run ads in New Hampshire attacking Haley on border issues.

Haley has a long history of switching positions on Trump. She opposed his 2016 bid for the Republican nomination and then went on to work in his administration as U.N. ambassador. She condemned Trump in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, but later declared that conservatives “need him” in the GOP. She vowed not to run against him in 2024, and then did.

And for much of her campaign, Haley has sought to have it both ways on Trump, calling him the “right president at the right time,” while also saying “chaos follows him” and the country “won’t survive” another four years of it.
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But the stakes are changing for Haley, who, with the support of the state’s popular governor, Chris Sununu, has been rising in recent polls in New Hampshire. And Trump and his allies have taken notice. The pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc. launched an ad in the Granite State in mid-December accusing Haley of flip-flopping on her support for a gas tax as governor of South Carolina by splicing together clips from various speeches she gave. “New Hampshire can’t afford Nikki ‘High Tax’ Haley,” the narrator says in the spot that the PAC has put more than $2 million behind, according to the ad tracking firm AdImpact.

At first, Haley brushed the attack aside in a post on X as Trump “getting nervous.” But as the ad kept airing, Haley has started to address it, unprompted, on the stump — accusing Trump and his allies of spreading falsehoods about her stance on the tax in four separate appearances in New Hampshire over two days.

“I have seen the commercials you see. I’ve seen the little temper tantrums that he’s thrown,” Haley told a crowd of several hundred people packed into a sports bar in Londonderry on Wednesday. “And let me tell you this: There’s not one bit of it that’s truthful. I never once signed or would have signed a tax increase in South Carolina.”

As governor, Haley proposed a gas-tax increase to help fix the state’s roads, coupled with an income-tax cut, which she acknowledged in Milford on Wednesday night. But the plan was never approved, and Haley pledged to veto a standalone gas tax increase.

“If he wants to talk about raising taxes,” Haley said, “in 2018 he proposed on all of us a 25 cent gas tax increase.”

She didn’t stop there, going on to blast Trump’s handling of the economy — a major selling point of Trump’s campaign and a reason voters in New Hampshire often mention for continuing to support him.

“Everybody talks about how good the economy was under Trump. And it was good, right? But at what cost,” Haley said. “We had $8 trillion dollars in debt just in four years. Our kids will never forgive us for that.”

Haley’s incremental increase in rhetoric against Trump has garnered outsize attention from the media and, more importantly for the candidate, from voters looking to block him from securing the nomination for a third time.

But in a primary in which Chris Christie was long the lone candidate speaking directly against Trump, Haley’s shots at the former president are nowhere near as harsh as the former New Jersey governor’s — a difference that’s notable because Haley is, in part, attempting to peel moderate Republicans and independents away from Christie.

Wayne MacDonald, a New Hampshire lawmaker and former state Republican Party chair who is helping to lead Christie’s campaign in the state, said Haley’s offensive “may well be too little and too late.”

At Haley’s midafternoon meet-and-greet in Londonderry on Wednesday, Paul Keenliside, an independent voter from Salem who is leaning toward voting for the former South Carolina governor, said it’s “encouraging to hear her respond” to the ad.

But for Keenliside and other voters crammed into the strip mall sports bar, Haley’s ramp-up may not go far enough — not when she says she would pardon Trump and refuses to rule out being his running mate.

“I would be looking for a lot more, in terms of seeing her commit to not running as [Trump’s] VP,” Keenliside said. “That’s an issue for me.”

 

Steve Bannon says a second Trump administration would 'fail' if Nikki Haley is tapped to be the ex-president's running mate
John L. Dorman
Wed, January 3, 2024 at 12:00 PM MST·3 min read
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  Steve Bannon in a recent interview said Nikki Haley as a potential Trump VP running mate would be a nonstarter.
  
  
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• Bannon, a former Trump White House senior counselor, has long been tied to the MAGA movement.
  

Ex-White House chief strategist Steven Bannon in a recent interview threw cold water on Nikki Haley's potential selection as a vice presidential running mate for former President Donald Trump, arguing that she would cause a second Trump administration to "fail."

Haley, a former UN ambassador in the Trump administration, is still very much in the race for the White House, where she's become the leading GOP alternative to Trump with less than two weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses and less than a month before the New Hampshire primary.

But Bannon, a highly polarizing figure throughout his short tenure in the Trump White House, is coming out swinging against Haley, who despite her campaign momentum still remains far behind the former president in national and statewide polling.

"One of the fights we're going to have, a big fight, it will take place in the spring, will be — they're going to try to force Nikki on the ticket," Bannon said during a Monday podcast episode of the "Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec" on Real America's Voice.

"They'll say Trump needs a woman: Nikki on the ticket. She balances things," he continued. "And she can bring together that 15 percent of Never Trumpers in the Republican Party. We're going to have to have that fight."

Trump has not yet secured the GOP presidential nomination, but due to his strength in not only the early-voting states but also in later contests — including critical races on Super Tuesday — many conservatives are already mapping out the former president's next moves in choosing a running mate.

Bannon, who retains a major following among Trump's MAGA base voters, told Posobiec that Haley would seek to style herself in the mold of former Vice President Dick Cheney should the pair become a ticket and win the White House in 2024.

"If Nikki Haley is in this administration in any capacity, it will fail," he said. "She's a viper, and once she gets in there, she'll try to run it as prime minister."

"She'll try to be Dick Cheney," Bannon added, referencing the former vice president's partnership with his boss, former President George W. Bush.

When Bush tapped Cheney to be his running mate in 2000, it was seen as a move that elevated an experienced Washington hand, as Bush's elected political experience was limited to his gubernatorial tenure in Texas. After the pair entered the White House in 2001, Cheney would be seen by many observers as one of the most powerful vice presidents in US history.

Last month, Bannon predicted to former White House press secretary Sean Spicer that Trump would likely select a female running mate, mentioning names like Govs. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas, and Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina.

But in Bannon's eyes, Haley didn't belong on that list.

"I think it's very important for America First to make sure it ain't Nikki Haley," he said at the time.

In FiveThirtyEight's weighted national polling average of the GOP presidential contest, Trump is averaging 62.1% support, with Haley at roughly 11% support.

Read the original article on Business Insider


https://www.yahoo.com/news/steve-bannon-says-second-trump-190002620.html

 

Haley as Trump's VP?
That would be about like Eisenhower being Nixons VP.

 

She says she'll pardon Trump if she's elected president.... ok, why? He hasn't been convicted yet! Don't you want to review the court ruling before making that decision?
Sounds like special treatment again for the Orange clown!
Fuck her!

 

Nothing screams racism, bigotry, and prejudice louder than this. In fact its a huge red flag cliche among minorities. As soon as someone says something like "some of my best friends are Black" all it says is you see the person as Black more than a friend. And that 'friend" is the exception and you still see all the rest of Black people as N-words. It is simply a way of trying to hide and deny that. Haley is proving more stupid and ignorant and desperate by the day. In this instance Trump has the better approach. He wears his racism like a badge of honor. Of course I'm racist. So are you. And you want a racist for President. That's one reason his treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican cult followers love him.

'OMG, she went there': Nikki Haley shocks with 'Black friends' response to slavery gaffe

Adam Nichols
January 5, 2024 7:08AM ET





Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley tried to make amends for her slavery gaffe — and seemed to step on yet another rake in the process.

At a CNN town hall in Iowa Thursday night, Haley made an effort to walk back last week’s failure to list slavery as the cause of the Civil War.

“I had Black friends growing up,” she told host Erin Burnett.

And the outraged reaction hit almost immediately.

“OMG. She went there,” posted an X user called Yoda4 Sanity.

“She invoked a trope used by racists everywhere to defend their racist views,” wrote another user, Justin Higgins.

Burnett had asked Haley directly about her response at a New Hampshire town hall last week when she was asked what caused the Civil War.

“I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run, the freedoms, and what people could and couldn’t do,” she answered.

Her failure to mention slavery saw her buried by opponents, onlookers and civil rights leaders.

On Thursday, she told Burnett, “I should have said slavery right off the bat, but if you grow up in South Carolina, literally in second and third grade, you learn about slavery. You grow up and you have, you know, I had Black friends growing up. It is a very talked about thing. We have a big history in South Carolina when it comes to slavery, when it comes to all the things that happened with the Civil War."

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“I was thinking past slavery, and talking about the lesson that we would learn going forward. I shouldn’t have done that. I should have said slavery. But, in my mind, that’s a given. Everybody associates the Civil War with slavery.”

Her Black friends comment was derided by an analyst on the network hosting the event, who said it was like “cleaning up with a dirty rag.”

“This should not be hard for a woman of color in this day and age, to talk with real power and force about how awful slavery was and how important it is for us as a country to get past it and deal with it and confront it, so we can be better,” Van Jones continued.

“She’s talking to all the other bigots who think that’s an acceptable answer and will vote for her,” wrote X user David Lytle.

And Jemele Hill wrote, “Gotta give it to her .. she is truly committed to having the worst answers on this topic."

Watch the video below or at this link.

https://www.rawstory.com/nikki-haley-slavery-2666877663/

 

And for something she DIDN'T say no less.

 

If you saw the CNN town hall with Nikki, you would have heard her say, "I had some black friends growing up."
There you have it!

 

Actually, I didn't think she sounded half bad on the CNN town hall. Don't get me wrong. I'd never vote for her but she spoke like an intelligent convservative Republican, not totally tethered to the MAGA cult (but I could be wrong).

 

You just gotta love the leftist trigger point.
When a non white conservative woman says "I had some black friends growing up.".

Course your cracker liberal president can say his "it will turn our schools into jungles" and "poor kids are as smart as white kids" and no liberal bats an eye.

Cornpop.

 

it's such a wrongheaded thing to say when trying to show that you're not racially biased, "Hey, I have some of those people as friends."

 

Worse than

" Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids," ?​

Maybe we should ask the dog since he has anoited himself the expert on racism.

Nah. Hes too smitten with american hater.

You see, this whole publicity opportunity came about for something Haley DIDN'T say, which is to say its a manufactured smack down, and now regardless of what Haley says, doesn't say, does, doesn't do, the media will be giving it a headline and tsking their outrage at a racist uncovered by their expert journalism. american hater will be posting (and reposting) it to prove .... something.

Meanwhile the left proves, by action and word, its racism going all the way back to its founding.

You see, for liberals, it isn't exposing racism, they'd have to skewer all their own saints. Nope, its about beating down a political opponent even if the issue has to be manufactured.

Ah well. As long as they spell her name right, eh?

 

it's such a wrongheaded thing to say when trying to show that you're not racially biased, "Hey, I have some of those people as friends."

 

for liberals, it isn't exposing racism, they'd have to skewer all their own saints. Nope, its about beating down a political opponent even if the issue has to be manufactured.

 

Do you really think SHE can beat trump?

Do you really think Republicans would vote for a WOMAN?

 

Absolutely!

First, your party is absolutely dedicated to keeping Trump off the ballot, no matter what it takes. If you succeed she won't have to beat trump, will she?

Deplorables will vote for a woman, and yes, they will vote for a minority woman.

Unlike your party that couldn't put clinton on the throne, even after it was promised to her.
The hell was that about, anyway?

 

She got overconfident, maybe. Also, people just didn't seem to like her as a person...look at Ted Cruz or George Santos

 

Trump Shares Conspiracy Theory That Nikki Haley Is Ineligible to Be President
Alex GriffingJan 9th, 2024, 6:17 pm
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Former President Donald Trump shared a post from the Gateway Pundit this week claiming that Nikki Haley is disqualified from being president or vice president because her parents were “not U.S. citizens at the time of her birth.”

“In @Nikki Haley’s situation, reports indicate that her parents were not U.S. citizens at the time of her birth in 1972. Based on the Constitution as interpreted by @PaulIngrassia, this disqualifies Haley from presidential or vice-presidential candidacy under the 12th Amendment,” wrote the post shared by Trump on his Truth Social platform.

Trump and his allies have previously made similar claims regarding former President Barack Obama and Vice President Kamala Harris. AP fact-checked the latest round of so-called “birtherism” conspiracy theories against Haley and found the outlandish claims to be baseless, which was never really in question.








“Haley is a natural-born U.S. citizen who is eligible to serve as president. The former ambassador to the United Nations was born on Jan. 20, 1972, in Bamberg, South Carolina, according to information on her official website when she was governor of the state,” the AP wrote, adding:

But experts agree Haley is a legitimate candidate as defined by the Constitution, regardless of her parents’ citizenship status. Her birth in Bamberg makes her a natural-born citizen, one of three qualifications to hold the U.S. presidency.

The U.S. Constitution clearly states in Article II, Section 1 stipulates that “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

The author of the article Trump shared about his former ambassador to the U.N., Paul Ingrassia, offered his appreciation to the GOP frontrunner on X:

Thank you, President Trump, for sharing this very important piece from the @gatewaypundit discussing an article I wrote about Nikki Haley’s ineligibility to run for President because she is not a natural born citizen under Article II, Section 1, and therefore runs afoul of the Constitution.

This could not have been done without the great investigative work by @LauraLoomer, who uncovered that neither one of Haley’s parents were US citizens when she was born in 1972.

The Gateway Pundit is a fringe, far-right website known for spreading inaccurate, conspiracy theory-based information about the 2020 election. “In the wake of the 2020 election, it peaked at nearly 50 million visits a month, according to one estimate, illustrating the power of viral disinformation,” Reuters noted of the highly trafficked site, adding:

Reuters found the site’s often-debunked election-fraud claims were cited in about 100 of more than 800 threatening or harassing messages sent to election officials since last November


https://www.mediaite.com/politics/t...at-nikki-haley-is-ineligible-to-be-president/

 

Huh.
Retreaded Obama attack.

Did you see?
Haley is single digits behind Trump.
Trump 39%
Haley 33%
Christie 12%
DeSantis 5%
Etc. Etc.

 

Trump agrees with the constitution when it suits him. Other than that, he didn't swear an oath to it and does not have to honor it!

 

Not about trump, is it?